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Ours To Hold It High: The History Of The 77th Infantry Division In World War II

by: United States. Army. Infantry Division, 77th

Publication date: 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: WWII,World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental Histories -- United States,United States. Army,World War, 1939-1945,United States. -- Army -- Infantry Division, 77th -- History,World War II

Collection: nsia_contributions; nationalsecurityarchive; additional_collections

Language: English

To Those Who Did Not Return They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, To the going down of sun and in the morning We shall remember them. Lawrence Bryan Digitized by Google CONTENTS FOREWORD by General Bruce ix THOSE WHO HANDED US THE TORCH 1 PART I. BUILDING A COMBAT DIVISION 7 Chapter 1. Activation and Training 9 Chapter 2. Louisiana Maneuvers 26 Chapter 3. The Sands of Hyder 29 Chapter 4. From West Virginia to Chesapeake Bay ... 36 Chapter 5. Training in Pineapple Land 41 PART II. THE LIBERATION OF GUAM 55 Chapter 6. Objective Guam 57 Chapter 7. The Fight for the Beachhead ... . . 62 Chapter 8. To Pago Bay: The Fight for Food 83 Chapter 9. Barrigada: The Fight, for Water 92 Chapter 10. Pursuit Through the Jungle 101 Chapter 11. The Final Push: Yigo and Santa Rosa . . . 113 Chapter 12. Camp McNair and Harmon Road 125 PART III. THE LIBERATION OF LEYTE 139 Chapter 13. No Rest for the Weary 141 Chapter 14. East Leyte: 23 November— 5 December . . . 142 Chapter 15. The End Run to Ormoc 148 Chapter 16. Cogon, Valencia, Tagbong River and Libungao Road Junction 160 Chapter 17. The Road to Palompon 186 PART IV. KERAMA RETTO 223 Chapter 18. Getting Ready for the Next One 225 Chapter 19. Five Assault Landings on L-6 Day 228 Chapter 20. Later Landings 236 PART V. IE SHIMA: IMPORTANT LITTLE ISLAND 251 Chapter 21. Dodging a Divine Wind 253 Chapter 22. Assault Through the Back Door 258 Chapter 23. Iegusugu Yama 267 PART VI. OKINAWA: FINAL BLOW TO DAI NIPPON 293 Chapter 24. The Escarpment 295 Chapter 25. The Japs Strike Back 308 Chapter 26. Breaking of the Shun Line 321 Chapter 27. The Last Three Hills 360 PART VII. MOPPING UP AFTER THE WAR 389 Chapter 28. Cebu: Rehabilitation and the Jap Surrender . 391 Chapter 29. The Occupation of Hokkaido 409 Chapter 30. Mission Accomplished 419 APPENDICES Casualties (Killed in Action) 430 Troop List of the 77th Infantry Division 431 Chronology 434 Unit and Individual Awards and Citations 438 Roster of Personnel 445 The History Staff and The History Committee 586 Digitized by Google.